Chapter 349. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 349.— An Act To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes. February 2, 1903.[[Public, No. 49](/us/pl/57/49).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in order to enable theContagious diseases of live stock.Powers to suppress transferred to Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Agriculture to effectually suppress and extirpate contagious pleuropneumonia, foot and mouth disease, and other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases in cattle and other live stock, and to prevent the spread of such diseases, the powers conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury by sections four and five of an Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide meansVol. 28, p. 82. for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals” 792approved May Transportation and regulations.twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four (twenty-third United States Statutes, thirty-one), are hereby conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture, to be exercised exclusively by him.
He is hereby authorized and directed, from time to time, to establish such rules and regulations concerning the exportation and transportation of livestock from any place within the United States where be may have reason to believe such diseases may exist into and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia and to foreign Shipment after inspection.countries, as he may deem necessary, and all such rules and regulations shall have the force of law.
Whenever any inspector or assistant inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall issue a certificate showing that such officer had inspected any cattle or other live stock which were about to be shipped, driven, or transported from such locality to another, as above stated, and had found them free from Texas or splenetic fever infection, pleuropneumonia, foot and mouth disease, or any other infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, such animals, so inspected and certified, may be shipped, driven, or transported from such place into and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, Fees.and into and through the District of Columbia, or they may be exported from the United States without further inspection or the exaction of fees of any kind, except such as may at any time be Supervision, etc., of the Bureau of Animal Industry.ordered or exacted by the Secretary of Agriculture; and all such animals shall at all times be under the control and supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department for the purposes of such inspection.
Sec. 2. Regulations to prevent contagious dis-eases, etc.That the Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country into the United States or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to another, and to seize, quarantine, and dispose of any hay, straw, forage, or similar material, or any meats, hides, or other animal products coming from an infected foreign country to the United States, or from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia in transit to another State or Territory or the District, of Columbia whenever in his judgment such action is advisable in order to guard against the introduction or spread of such contagion.
Sec. 3. Penalty.That any person, company, or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this Act or the orders or regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a tine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such tine and imprisonment. Approved, February 2, 1903.